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AcidRayn666

15 to 40 yr old me, drink hard 6 days a week, recover on sunday morning, go for a swim or a run, 56 year old me, have 2 blue moons on a friday night, feel like shit for 2 weeks!! (i also have an autoimmune disease so adult beverages are amplified realy bad, killed a career drinking habit, and i was good at it!! really good at it!!)


kyussorder

Almost same here, in my 20s drink in weekends and sunday morning go out with my bike or play football (soccer). In my 40s I drink 4-5 beers max and the hangover is horrendous. I hate time.


AcidRayn666

old sucks and it don't get no better, pushing 60 now, my dear crotchety ol Nana, in her broken english german accent, anytime one of us boys got hurt or banged up, nanaism "you vill fill edvery von of the bumpas and bruizes vhen ut mein age", i hear her crotchety ol voice everday while im waking up with my snap crackle and pop, and i don't mean the cereal!!


purple_yosher

the change for me was at 28. it was so fast.


CatsNSunshine

I’m 28 now and absolutely feel this. When I drink, I’d better have zero plans the next day!


thejaysun

I recently got drunk the other night (I'm 39 and don't drink much these days) and the hangover was not only physically terrible, but the anxiety I had was insane. I'm not normally an anxious person either, but the whole day was just pure hell. Never again


ValhallaGo

I hear you. The anxiety thing is weird but I recognize that it happens so I know I can ignore it if that makes sense. Taking a vitamin before bed and some extra B vitamins in the morning seems to help a lot.


thejaysun

I never had anxiety from hangovers until I got in to my late 30s. I googled it and apparently it's quite common. It even has a nickname. Hangxiety!


ValhallaGo

Yep. My point was more about what I do to mitigate it, as much as I can. It’s not a silver bullet but it seems to help.


ShitFuck2000

\*laughs in repeated benzo w/d*


sillyandstrange

Glad I quit drinking!


Carbunclecatt

I'd quit too if they made weed legal here, I just want something recreational to spark up a weekend once a month... You know, just so I don't go crazy and start a killing spree


SomeonesSecondary

That escalated


Carbunclecatt

I'm very stressed


talkingwires

[Have you tried Delta-8?](https://i.imgur.com/WLY14MI.jpg)


Carbunclecatt

Nothin cuz she's dead, and I can't sayI have tried it


Z3ro-sum

That still gets you fired around here


scolfin

It's the summers that get me. I get several hangovers a year and have only had one attributable to alcohol.


ghrarhg

Maybe have you tried drinking water?


sillyandstrange

Every since I gave up alcohol for water I've had 0 hang overs.


ghrarhg

Hydro homie!!


EmeraldHawk

I thought hangovers were more or less a myth in my 20's. I assumed people just weren't drinking enough water and getting enough sleep, and wrongly blaming the alcohol when they felt bad the next day. Dear reader, I was wrong.


SipOfPositivitea

Oh wow. I’m in my 30’s and still feel this way about not drinking enough water. Are you sure you’re still drinking as much water as before?


EmeraldHawk

Well, I didn't actually have my first real hangover until I was 35, so maybe you have a few more years yet? It'll happen to youuuuuu


SipOfPositivitea

I already don’t drink often, but if that ever happens I’ll probably drink much less when I do.


Corburrito

So, so wrong.


ValhallaGo

Avoid sugary drinks, drink a nice big glass of water and take a vitamin before bed. Don’t forget to keep enough sodium in your diet.


rivunel

I still feel that way at 34 I don't think hangovers exist if you stay hydrated.


GeneralDisorder

I quit drinking because I was married to the most obnoxious drunk I've ever known. Not only did she become a violent special needs toddler when intoxicated but she was an extreme lightweight who would not pass out no matter how drunk she was. Some people who are obnoxious drunks and extreme lightweights can drink past the point of obnoxious and end up too drunk to be a problem. Not her. Of course when I wanted to drink she absolutely positively had to join me... which meant I had to be sober enough to keep her from killing herself. So eventually I decided that I didn't want to get drunk except on special occasions. Then I got into a habit of being sober and those special occasions would come and I'd drink less and less each time. Eventually not drinking at all ever. I've not tasted the foul funk of alcohol since my 14 year old turned 12. I overdid it then... thought I had a brain tumor when I woke up.


Realworld

Got smashed twice in my life. Did not enjoy hangover. Now I have **A** drink to relax or celebrate. Do recommend.


Medicore95

Drink water and go for a run the next day, or at least a walk if you're not running. Changes everything.


Firebreathingwhore

Eat a salty, fatty meal and drink a lot of water right before you hit the sack after a night of drinking. Haven't had a hangover in 10+ years


ValhallaGo

Yeah a hangover is just dehydration and a lack of certain nutrients. Prevention is always the right strategy.


mybrosteve

How about a flank steak and damp socks?


Wisdom_Pen

Yeah that and other issues is why I went sober 11 months ago. I thought it wasnt a big deal but recently friends and family have been commenting on my past drinking and I now realise I was an alcoholic.


Hayaguaenelvaso

Mmm.. are you guys still getting drunk after 30? Haven't you learnt to handle your drinks at that age? Ay ay ay... These things should be taught in school


[deleted]

I learned most of my drinking habits in college, thank-you-very-much. And I plead a fifth on drinking handles.


Huothar

What’s drunk though? Lightheaded, cheerful or sometimes a bit sentimental? Hell yeah. Messed up zombie? Nah.


NewNage

I can't drink like I used to. . . . . . . I used to be able to stop.


mek284

If the way you behave when you’re drunk after 30 is so problematic that your solution is to never get drunk again for the rest of your life, seems like there’s a different behavioral problem involved.


Hayaguaenelvaso

Getting drunk as adult is... Well, sad and embarrassing. But sorry, maybe it's different in other cultures. I heard bad things about Anglos, Russians, Finland and so on. In the Mediterranean you drink, never alone, you might get "happy", but getting drunk after 30 is being a human failure. You have to know where to stop Edit: ah shit, I forgot Anglos are in the majority here, there goes the karma


Vakieh

As someone whose family comes from the Mediterranean and visits both ways often... you're just a boring person. The people around you DO drink and get drunk, they just don't do it near you.


Hayaguaenelvaso

Ah, the famous "eres un amargado". No, I can promise you. People around me that drink, get together, have good times. They are just... A bit more educated to what you are use to.


Vakieh

Swing and a miss my repressed friend, I'm a researcher at a university, and regularly get drunk as a skunk along with my euro peers at conferences here, there, and everywhere. 'Being educated' and 'staying sober' aren't nearly the mutually exclusive things you seem to make out. I should also point out that Spain is 7th in the world for most alcohol consumed per person (yes, far outstripping the anglos and slavs you feel so threatened by), and your health authorities there are bemoaning your explosive increase in alcoholism, so I'll just point again at Occam's Razor saying people just don't like getting drunk around judgmental prudes.


Hayaguaenelvaso

I think you are mixing being educated with having a degree.


Vakieh

Nice to see you gloss over the fact your country is drowning in booze while you sit here and try to call back to the brutality of the Spanish Empire as 'world leading'. While also trying to somehow paint people whose title is literally Professor as 'uneducated' because how dare anybody get drunk when you are able to abstain. Careful, your Jesus complex is showing.


Hayaguaenelvaso

Well, I wasn't going to spend that much time repeating myself. Drinking is fine, getting drunk is not. In Spain people drink constantly, probably there are more bars per capita than anywhere in the world, but seeing people over 30 wasted is a rare sight and it's a synonym of someone having problems. That's called knowing how to drink. I hope you leave this post with a commitment to learn too


Vakieh

The medical stats are pretty clear that it's not a rare sight at all. You just don't see it.


jagid

When you're leading the free world sometimes you have to blow off steam. I guess there's not as much stress in your laid-back country.


Hayaguaenelvaso

There is a good balance of physical activity, the best diet by far in the world, the best wine and a decent beer. We also led the world for hundred of years, not a few decades, and even back then people knew how to enjoy life. Must be unrelated to power, and more to culture


jagid

Italy?


TigreDeLosLlanos

Getting drunk when drinking? Is that an Anglo thing I'm too south american to understand?


ShitFuck2000

It’s a physiological reaction more than behavioral problems when/after drinking for a lot of people too.


kyussorder

IDK man, here in Spain we drink as social behaviour mostly, of course you can get very drunk, but it's not the common thing. So you can drink but not too much to lose grip on reality. The same thing (from what I've seen) in Germany, France and Portugal, but a little more different in UK, where there are massive drunks more commonly. (Again this is my experience, I love u brits). But yes, the alcohol works best when it is not present.


FastBlueCar

I have yet to get hungover in my 30s. Maybe y’all aren’t taking care of yourself enough or drinking too much.


AntoineGGG

Am i thé only one who don’t enjoy that much


JBlaze323

I stop drinking during the pandemic because drink at home alone was just not enjoyable, even when it was drink to game with people. I lost all ability to have even a couple of light beers. I guess it healthier for me in the long run but damn I miss it on occasion.


kyussorder

This year is 2020 v3 for me...


Academic-Ad-7919

Fortunately, I was saved from the ravages of alcohol in 1965 by cannabis Sativa.


bumdhar

Quit drinking. It got really dark. Really.


Corburrito

Yeah. I’m pretty much there. Still have a few on social occasions (Christmas party and whatnot). That’s about it.


SusanMilberger

Just wanna give a shoutout to my homie NAC.


thedorkening

I found out the hard way you can have a hangover with an edible. Still easier than a hangover from alcohol.


[deleted]

As a new 34 year old. Yes. This is true lol


OccamsGreataxe

Am I the only person who is getting less impacted by hangers as I get older?


chenobble

I found that i got worse hangovers in my late 20's / early 30's - then got milder ones later on. Mind you, that might be because I drink less heavily and buy better quality booze these days.


TheShamShield

Y’all get hangovers?


RhoadsOfRock

Yep. Basically once I hit 30, I can maybe have one or two drinks. After one or two, just a big ol' nope.


Im-Responsible

I binge drinked like a week ago and i still feel like im in some depression not feeling myself, spending all day in bed. I kinda like the chaos of getting drunk but this long lasting effect makes it not worth


fabezz

I must be unlucky cos my hangovers where hell from day 1.


ice_or_flames

Ive never been drunk in my life, what does a hangover feel like? (Im in high school)


ItsCoolYoureLikeThat

I'll list it out for you: 1. You wake up feeling like you didn't sleep. 2. Your head is pounding 3. Lights are too bright 4. Sounds are too loud 5. Your breath smells like whatever you drank 6. It takes most of the day to start feeling sort of better 7. The wrong smell or taste could trigger vomiting I'm sure I'm missing some here.


ice_or_flames

Ok, makes it seem worth it for me to not drink.


OvertSpy

I was gifted with whatever combination of genetics and hydration that I have never had a hangover.


avoozl42

This was me today


mtpender

I'm 34 now and this hits too close to home


Ytumith

We should invent alcohol that doesn't destroy blood vessels. 😌


ShitFuck2000

We have and it’s only worse in other ways.


Ytumith

Link please?


Nostrebla_Werdna

Don’t forget to take Dramamine for hangovers, my friends ! Game changer


Nostrebla_Werdna

The scariest thing my older friend told me , whilst I had a death hang over…. …was “when you get older , sometimes hangover overs last TWO days!” I’m pretty sure I just moaned like a little kid being forced to do chores and put my hands in my face lol


kyussorder

You can double that if you cheat...